Appearance Manager

[Bill Marriott]

Ah, this is an interesting distinction. I somehow thought that "default 
appearance manager" meant there were other appearance managers, one for each 
supported OS, and that one could/should be able to add ones and customize 
existing ones.

Well, good to know I wasn't overlooking some secret stack hidden somewhere. 
I did vote for Bugzilla #2383:

http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2383

Though it's not a "bug" so it won't make it in to 2.7.5... There is also an 
existing Bugzilla, #1357, about Linux LookAndFeel, but it's marked as closed 
somehow. Either a new bug needs to be added or this one is not really 
closed/resolved.


"Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote 
in message news:4569D482.4080609 at fourthworld.com...
>
> Jan Schenkel wrote:
>> The "Appearance Manager" is just like any other
>> lookAndFeel - the engine may hand off the drawing of
>> the controls to the operating system instead of
>> drawing those with its internal routines....
>
> ...with one critical distinction:  No operating system other than Apple's 
> has anything called an "Appearance Manager".  In fact, I'm not even sure 
> if recent implementations of OS X do either.
>
> When XP came along, the "Appearance Manager" token became extended to also 
> specify OS-native lookAndFeel for that platform, even though the token 
> makes no sense in that OS.  Presumably when Rev adopts support for GDK 
> it'll use the same token for those OS-native appearances, further decaying 
> any useful meaning the term "Appearance Manager" may have once had.
>
> So as long as we're on the subject, it would be simpler and less confusing 
> to depricate "Appearance Manager" in favor of a more universal token, 
> maybe something like "native".
>
> Anyone know if this is in BZ?  If not, I'll gladly add it.